• Nicole Richie and Joel Madden have treated nearly 200 children to a Christmas party as part of their Richie-Madden Children’s Foundation project. The couple themselves hosted the event yesterday, giving out shoes and toys to children from the Beyond Shelter programme for families surviving from poverty or homelessness. Nicole said: “We really wanted to give these kids a really wonderful and special Christmas. It’s our favorite holiday.” She added their own Christmas will be a “very boring .. very low-key” one this year while they await the birth of their first child in the new year.
  • Amy Winehouse was reportedly set to be the latest star wearing a red Kabbalah string around her wrist - until she found out what they stood for. A source close to Amy told the Daily Mail: “Amy saw someone wearing one and thought it was cool. She stopped the person [to ask about it and they] gave her a Kabbalah handbook and told her to see a Kabbalah rabbi if she wanted a bracelet. Amy baulked when she discovered the bracelets cost £18 and said she’d give the rabbi a miss.”